What Employers Can Do About COVID-19 Stress And Employee Burnout

Homeschooling children, caring for sick relatives and worrying about job security are just some of the new stressors American workers are facing in the wake of COVID-19. The novel coronavirus has shaken up our daily lives, and many people may be wondering if we can ever go back to normal after this.

Employees may be staying in their pajamas all day not because they want to, but because they’re too paralyzed by stress to change out of them.

These new stressors are hitting employees with burnout especially hard. The chronic workplace stress condition is only being exacerbated by all of the new uncertainty that the virus brings.

“Employees have been navigating such a ton of change and disruption because of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Melissa Jezior, president and CEO of Eagle Hill consulting, said.

“It’s changed how we work, where we work, resulted in clashes between our work and home lives like we’ve never had before.”